Forget Salmon. This Medieval Bread Has 5x More Omega-3 (Original Recipe)

From Medieval Way

There is a bread that used to sit on every table from the monasteries of Burgundy to the longhouses of the Baltic. You will not find it in any grocery store. You will not see it on any cooking show. And yet, this bread fed entire civilizations for a thousand years before the first white loaf was ever pulled from an industrial oven. Monks ate it. Vikings carried it on ships across the Baltic and beyond. Soldiers marched on it. Peasants in cold stone cottages fed their children on it through winters that would break most of us. *Scientific Studies & Nutrition Research*

• [NIH Office of Dietary Supplements — Omega-3 Fatty Acids Health Professional Fact Sheet](https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Ome...)
• [Nutrition Journal — "Potential protective properties of flax lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside" (2015)](https://link.springer.com/article/10....)
• [PMC — "Flax and flaxseed oil: an ancient medicine & modern functional food"](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...)
• [PMC — "The Role of Flaxseed in Improving Human Health"](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...)
• [PMC — "Flaxseed Bioactive Compounds: Chemical Composition, Functional Properties, Food Applications and Health Benefits"](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...)

*Archaeological & Historical Sources*

• [Vegetation History and Archaeobotany — Cultural history of Linum usitatissimum (flax)](https://link.springer.com/article/10....)
• [Wessex Archaeology — Grains of History](https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/gra...)
• [UNESCO World Heritage — Birka and Hovgården](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/555)
• [Wikipedia — Birka (Viking Age trading town)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birka)
• [Medieval.eu — Viking Bread and Food](https://www.medieval.eu/viking-bread-...)
• [Viking Ship Museum (Roskilde) — Birka Bread recipe and archaeology](https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/...)

*Institutional & Reference Sources*

• [Capitulare de Villis — English translation (University of Leicester Carolingian Polyptyques project)](https://www.le.ac.uk/hi/polyptyques/c...)
• [Wikipedia — Capitulare de villis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitul...)
• [Wikipedia — Nordic bread culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_...)
• [Wikipedia — Hildegard of Bingen (author of Physica, documents flaxseed medicinal uses)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildega...)
• [Wikipedia — Flax / Linum usitatissimum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flax)